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Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.

For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycleservicesand an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-worldresultsand help move society forward.

• Competitive salary

• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time

• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care

• On the job/cross training opportunities

• Encouraging and collaborative team environment

• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

Johnson Controls Inc. are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and operate a secure, scalable data platform that powers Workforce Analytics.

This role is focused on enabling high-quality, governed data consumption in Snowflake, with a strong emphasis on secure access patterns for humans, applications, and AI-driven tools.

In addition, this role will own and evolve the Posit (RStudio) platform, ensuring data scientists and advanced analysts have a seamless, secure, and performant environment for developing and operationalizing analytical workflows.

You will work across Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Integration to ensure data is trusted, protected, and easily consumable across modern use cases.

Design and mature secure data access patterns in Snowflake for:

• Analysts and business users
• Applications and downstream integrations
• AI/ML tools and agent-based consumers
• Implement and evolve RBAC / policy-based access models
• Define patterns for least-privilege access, scoped datasets, and governed sharing
• Ensure secure handling of PII and sensitive workforce data
• Partner with security and governance teams on auditability and compliance
• Anticipate future access patterns driven by AI and automation

• Own and optimize the Snowflake platform (performance, compute strategy, cost management)
• Design best practices for data organization, modeling layers, and access structures
• Enable scalable and governed data domains for Workforce Analytics

• Own and manage the Posit (RStudio) platform for Workforce Analytics
• Ensure secure, performant connectivity between Posit and Snowflake
• Enable best practices for:
• Data access within R environments
• Package and environment management
• Reproducibility and version control
• Support operationalization of Python & R-based analytics, models, and workflows
• Partner with data scientists and advanced analysts to improve platform usability
• Establish patterns for governed, scalable analytical development

• Partner with Data Engineers to productionize pipelines using Coalesce.io
• Define standards for modular, reusable, and testable transformation logic
• Improve pipeline reliability and maintainability

• Implement and enforce data quality checks and validation frameworks
• Ensure reliability of critical workforce datasets (headcount, attrition, recruiting)
• Troubleshoot data issues with strong lineage awareness

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data transformations and platform changes
• Integrate workflows using Azure DevOps / GitHub
• Enable consistent deployment practices across environments

• Improve platform usability for engineers, analysts, and data scientists
• Create reusable templates and patterns across:
• Snowflake
• Coalesce
• Posit workflows
• Reduce friction while maintaining governance

• 5+ years in data engineering or data platform engineering
• Deep experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning and access control
• Strong SQL and experience working with complex data systems
• Experience with data transformation tools (Coalesce.io, dbt, or similar)
• Experience designing data access and security models
• Experience supporting or working with R / Posit (RStudio) environments

• Experience enabling data science platforms or analytical environments
• Exposure to Workforce / HR data and PII governance
• Experience supporting multi-modal consumption (BI, APIs, AI/ML tools)
• Familiarity with Azure ecosystem
• Experience with data quality and observability tooling

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $100,000-145,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience,knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with marketdata.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group,and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package. Theposted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognizethat exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typicalprofile. If you believe your background warrants consideration beyond the stated range, weencourage you to apply. To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may usetechnology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluatecandidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. For details, pleasevisit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site athttps://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us